- Adding a Fallback Substitute to a Diet Intervention
- When a Diet Intervention with Fallback Substitute is Assigned to a Resident/Patient
Adding a Fallback Substitute to a Diet Intervention
The instructions below assume a diet intervention exists in your account to add a fallback substitute to (if not, see Creating a Diet Intervention: First Steps). To add a fallback substitute to a diet intervention:
- Select Tools & Setup > Diet Orders. The Diet Order Setting screen appears.
- Select the Interventions tab. The Interventions screen appears, listing existing interventions.
- Click the name of the intervention to edit.
- Scroll down to the Customizations List section and click the Add New button and select Fallback Substitute.
- Select the Food & Non-Food Items option and use its associated filters as needed:
- Food Type - filter by recipes and prepared foods.
- Recipe Box - (available only if Recipe is selected from Food Type) - filter by a recipe box label, such as My Recipes.
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Categories - filter by food categories (if searching for prepared foods) and recipe categories (if searching for recipes). Note that if searching for both recipes and prepared foods, food categories are listed first in the drop-down, followed by recipe categories.
- Tags - filter by tags applied to recipes and prepared foods.
- Business Lines (exists if your MealSuite account is associated with more than one business line)
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My Corporation Items Only (for future use)
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As another search option, the Vendor Products option is a means to select a prepared food associated with a vendor product. From the vendor products that are returned from the search results, you then select one, which in turns adds the prepared food item the vendor product is linked with (i.e., vendor product is verified for the prepared food item). In other words, the prepared food item the vendor product is linked with is added, and not the vendor product itself.
- In the Search field, enter the description or ID of the item or product you are searching for and click Go. If results are not being returned, click here for search tips.
- If searching for a vendor product, note the following:
- A blue + indicates the vendor product is linked to a food item.
- A red + indicates the vendor product is not linked to a food item, and therefore cannot be selected.
- By clicking the eye icon (
) of an item, a separate window appears with the following tabs:
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Details - displays the recipe details.
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Nutrition Facts - displays the Nutrition Facts label.
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Where used (screenshot below) - displays the following sections:
- Recipes - lists any recipes the item is assigned to as an ingredient (i.e., a recipe can be an ingredient itself in a recipe), and lists any recipes the item is assigned to as a therapeutic substitute (i.e., an extended recipe).
- Menus - lists the menus the item is assigned to.
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Personal Menus - lists the people profiles who have the recipe added as a personal menu item to their personal menu.
Note: The Recipes section is displayed first; therefore if you do not see the Menus and Personal Menus sections, then you can either collapse the Recipes section (by clicking the Recipes header bar) or scroll down the window to see the Menus and Personal Menus sections. Also, the Menus and Personal Menus sections will need to be expanded by clicking their respective header bars.
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Details - displays the recipe details.
- For an item you want to add, click its + icon. The item appears in the Fallback substitute to Add section.
- Enter or select the following:
- Day - select the days to serve the item.
- Meal - select the meal periods and snack times to offer the item.
- Menu Category - select the menu category or categories the item will be available (e.g., entrée). Note that the categories that are available depend on the meal and snack times that are selected.
- Serving Size - adjust the default serving size if needed.
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Item Note - you have option of adding a note for the item, which will be printed on the service report for production staff.
- Click Add to close the window and add the item(s).
Note: If the fallback substitute conflicts with an existing Do Not Serve customization in the diet intervention, then the system prevents the fallback substitute from being created, and a message appears indicating such (e.g., below). - If the item has been extended with therapeutic substitutes, it displays with the (Extended Recipe) note, and if an item has not been extended, it displays with the (Extensions Not Complete) note (screenshot below). Clicking the note opens the extension grid of the item in a separate browser tab. For details on how the system treats an extended or non-extended item in a diet intervention, see When a Diet Intervention with Fallback Substitute is Assigned to a Person below.
When a Diet Intervention with Fallback Substitute is Assigned to a Resident/Patient
When a diet intervention with a fallback substitute is assigned to a resident/patient, then the following occurs:
- If the fallback substitute is extended with therapeutic substitutes, then the item added to the personal menu is taken from the recipe extension grid of the personal menu item. For example, assume the intervention consists of the High Protein Muffin as a fallback substitute, and that the High Protein Muffin is extended with the Pureed High Protein Muffin for the regular diet type/pureed texture type. If the intervention is assigned to a resident with a diet order of regular diet type/pureed texture type, then the Pureed High Protein Muffin is added to their personal menu and not the High Protein Muffin.
- If the diet type/texture type extension cell of a fallback substitute is “Do not serve”, or is empty (i.e., still set as “Set Extension”), then the system assumes the fallback substitute is not appropriate, and as such will not add the fallback substitute to their personal menu.